Quotes About Ornithology

The American Ornithologists' Union, in a decision published earlier that year, had decreed that the White-winged was just a local variety, not a full specieis. So much for the Black Hills' only claim to birding fame. The juncos themselves, of course, did not seem to care; watching them, neither did I.

plumped-out plumage pencilled plainly

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Samo su sitne ptice Å¡arene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

It's hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: 'Bugger off, this is my bush! Aargh, the nest thief! Have sex with me, I can make my chest big and red!

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Theunis Piersma and his colleagues in the 1990s showed how red knots were able to detect tiny immobile bivalves (like mussels and clams) hidden in sand. When the bird pushes its beak into wet sand it generates a pressure wave in the minute amounts of water lying between the sand grains. This pressure wave is disrupted by solid objects, such as bivalves, which block the flow of water, thereby creating a 'pressure disturbance' detectable by the bird.

Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks. "Ornithology," she replies. "You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask. Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic.